'Russia helped elect Donald Trump': GOP strategist calls out Republicans over Ukraine

Numerous Republican lawmakers are wrongly supporting Donald Trump and Russian interests over Ukraine and American democracy, Stuart Stevens, Chief Strategist of Romney's 2012 presidential campaign, said on Saturday.

Stevens, who appeared on CNN's The Source with Kaitlan Collins earlier this month and said Mitch McConnell was wrong about Republicans who secretly hate Trump but can't voice that concern, said today's Republican legislators are veering off course and that voters would be better off supporting President Joe Biden in the upcoming election.

Stevens began by saying Russia "helped elect" Trump in 2016.

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"Today the party that once was the most consistent antagonist of Soviet Union/Russia is the home of the large and growing pro-Putin element of American politics," Stevens said, adding that Biden "is in the role that represents the best of America: leading a coalition to fight tyranny and genocide."

The strategist added:

"If Ronald Reagan were president today, he would do the same," he said. "If you care about liberty and the defense of freedom, if you believe it is wrong to stand by while thousands of children are kidnapped and a tyrant sends an army of rapists and murderers to prey on the innocent, you have one choice in this election: support" Biden.

Stevens further encouraged everyone to "stand with" the President.

"There is no neutral position on confronting an evil unlike any we have seen since WW2. To do nothing is to help the evil spread. Stand with freedom. Stand with human dignity. Stand with Ukraine."